[OGo-XML-RPC] Re: Passing dates from Perl

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Helge Hess <helge.hess@opengroupware.org> writes:

> On Jun 27, 2006, at 14:49, alex.lists@freenet.de wrote:
>> Now, I want to create a task programmatically. But contrary to the
>> documentation, the xmlrpcd does not seem to accept dates in the format
>> %Y%m%dT%H%M%S.
>
> You need to submit proper XML-RPC date values, not strings.
>

Ahh, I see. I have to wrap the arguments into XML-RPC types.

For the record, in Perl you can do this like so:

use RPC::XML qw/RPC_DATETIME_ISO8601 time2iso8601/;

$time = RPC_DATETIME_ISO8601 "20060701T17:00:00";


Thanks again,

  Alex